We performed a comparison between Red Hat Gluster Storage and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."It's very easy to upgrade storage."
"The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided."
"The technical support team is excellent."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage."
"The user interface could be simplified."
"The performance of the solution must be improved."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, IBM Spectrum Scale, LizardFS and Portworx Enterprise, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorPool.
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